Letters : Cat's timing

I read your item about animals in Britain getting caught crossing the road when the clocks go back an hour with the end of British Summer Time (Feedback, 28 August), and you sounded perhaps a touch sceptical.

When I was a veterinary nurse, we always got an increase in the number of cats hurt in road accidents in October when the clocks changed. Obviously, cats take a little while to adjust to the change in the timing of rush-hour traffic, and when it gets darker an hour earlier (by our reckoning) they try to cross the road, aren't seen, and get run over. We never seemed to get an increase in casualties for any other species.

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